Globalization Quotes

• Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Technology, Able

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• It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

  Kofi Annan

  Reality, Law, Economic Globalization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

  Pope Francis

  Justice, People, Poverty

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• Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Powerful, Mean, Responsibility

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.

  Kofi Annan

  Communication, Rights, Justice

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Feb 20, 2017

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• My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Advice, Going Away

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• Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

  Pascal Lamy

  Inspiring, Unjust, Economic

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• This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Tools, Pace

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• [Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Economic Globalization, World

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• Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

  Jack Welch

  Barriers, Objectives, Imperatives

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• We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

  Nestor Kirchner

  Kind, Globalism

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• In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Respect, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

  Paul Virilio

  Light, Doe, World

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• The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

  Ralph Nader

  Rights, Essence, Democracy

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• Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Fragility, Facts

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.64, Routledge

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• Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

  John B. Larson

  Reality, Unintended Consequences, Force

  "Globalization: A Rendezvous with Reality" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2007.

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• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  Fatos Nano

  Issues, Borders, Today

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• If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Dollars, Benefits

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• Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it's the job of politicians to represent the people - and to put American workers first.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, People, Benefits

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Ideas, Intellectual

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• Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Latin, Economic Models

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• Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, Water, Together

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• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Nihilism, Today, Terrorism

  "The spirit of terrorism" by Jean Baudrillard, ("The Violence of the Global"), 2003.

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• The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

  Kenny Ausubel

  Mass Destruction, Economic Globalization, Weapons

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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